Senior Forward Deploy Engineer

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Deployment execution and platform bring-up
• Lead end-to-end deployment of Armada platforms including Atlas, Galleon with AEP, and Leviathan AI Factory integrated with Bridge GPU-as-a-Service
• Own on-site and in-country deployments across Saudi Arabia and the broader ME region
• Own infrastructure bring-up, platform configuration, and production readiness validation
• Make real-time technical decisions across hardware, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU layers
• Technical account ownership and customer success
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned customers post go-live
• Own the technical success plan, adoption milestones, and operational maturity roadmap
• Build trusted, long-term relationships with customer engineering, IT, OT, and security team
• Lead technical governance discussions, roadmap planning, and platform optimization conversations

Joint Success Plan ownership

• Build, maintain, and actively drive Joint Success Plans (JSPs) for each assigned customer
• Align deployment milestones, platform adoption, and operational maturity to customer business objectives
• Use the Joint Success Plan as the primary framework for prioritization, execution, risk management, and value tracking
• Regularly review progress against success plans with customer stakeholders and Armada leadership
• Ensure JSPs inform deployment sequencing, adoption strategy, roadmap discussions, and expansion planning
• Surface risks, dependencies, and blockers early and drive resolution with clear ownership
• Time-to-value acceleration and adoption
• Reduce time-to-try and time-to-value by unblocking workloads and accelerating early production use cases
• Drive adoption across new workloads, business units, and countries
• Identify expansion opportunities including additional Galleon deployments and Leviathan AI Factory capacity through Bridge GPUaaS
• Operational excellence and reliability
• Ensure customer environments remain stable, secure, and production-ready
• Proactively identify scaling risks, architectural gaps, and technical debt
• Coordinate with Product, Engineering, and Support teams to resolve issues efficiently
• Sovereign data, security, and compliance execution
• Operate confidently within Saudi and regional sovereign data and security requirements
• Support security validation, audits, and governance processes as required by customers
• Maintain disciplined access control, documentation, and operational hygiene
• Field leadership and mentorship
• Act as a senior technical presence for ND8 customers, setting the bar for execution and professionalism
• Mentor junior FDEs, TAMs, and delivery engineers as the region scales
• Contribute to deployment standards, runbooks, and repeatable best practices
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Partner closely with the Sr. Director of Customer Success & Delivery, EMEA & ANZ on customer priorities and escalations
• Work with Sales on expansion planning while maintaining a trusted post-sale posture
• Provide structured feedback to Product and Engineering based on real customer usage

Qualifications

• and Experience
• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, forward-deployed engineering, or technical account roles
• Proven ability to own both hands-on delivery and long-term customer technical relationships
• Deep technical expertise across Linux, networking, Kubernetes, storage, and GPU-accelerated compute
• Strong troubleshooting skills in live, production environments
• Experience working directly with customers in regulated, high-stakes settings
• Willingness to travel across Saudi Arabia and the broader ME region
• Clear, confident communication style suitable for executive and engineering audiences

Preferred Experience

• Experience with edge compute, modular data centers, or distributed infrastructure
• Familiarity with AI workloads, GPU clusters, and high-performance computing environments
• Exposure to sovereign or national-scale customer environments
• Experience operating in Saudi Arabia, UAE or across ME
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and owning outcomes end to end